Art lovers ought to be crazy.That's how they see the fun side of everything.
The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.
Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock...
Art does what reality cannot.
Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.
If you're to explain your works, then surely you have chosen wrong audience!
It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injust...
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
There are a good many people of the same kind as Harry. Many artists are of his kind. These persons all have two souls, two beings within them. Thee is God and the devil in them; the mother's blood an...
There is no difference between being an artist and being in love.
Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you.
I love the smell of pastels...that breaths life into my soul.
I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they will hear the laughter of the children they gave life, I will know the torments of th...
How many artists have created while drunk, high on laudanum, opium, chloral or amphetamines? What have antidepressants ever done for culture?
The first thousand are the hardest.
The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature.
There is a LOT of bad news every day. The world seems to be getting more and more crazy. So every time you see some bad news, go do something nice for someone or go create something. Write a poem or a...
A lot of excellent illustrators are working at the moment--especially in fantasy and children's books. It is exciting also to see graphic artists such as Dave McKean, in his film Mirrormask, moving be...